‘Where all the poets went to die’: Romanticising the Romantics in Taylor Swift’s ‘the lakes’
Welcome to the first episode of 2025! We’re kicking off the year with a deep-dive into ‘the lakes’, the bonus track on Taylor Swift’s 2020 Grammy-award winning album folklore. Some may wonder how two ...
26 Jan 202557min
Writing Fanfiction: Translation, Transformative Works, and the Ship of Theseus
What do Chaucer, Shakespeare, and MsKingBean89 have in common? What unites them, beyond their abilities to speak to the masses of their time, pioneering brand new literary traditions that represent th...
22 Des 20241h 15min
Reading Fanfiction: Alternative Universes, Mythologies, and Sylvia Plath’s Fig Tree
If you’re anything like us, some of your favourite books exist only on a little site called Archive of Our Own, and some of your favourite authors are only known by a weird internet username, and some...
24 Nov 20241h 8min
The “Radical” Power of Heterosexuality: An Anatomy of YA Dystopias
Is heterosexuality enough to take down a tyrannical government? That is the question YA dystopian novels in the 2010s were brave enough to ask. Over a decade later, we take it upon ourselves to try to...
27 Okt 20241h 13min
Do Cars Dream of Mechanical Labour?: Capitalism and Determinism in Pixar’s Cars
Remember Cars? It has probably lingered in the abyss of your childhood memories - the story of an arrogant race car who learns the meaning of community and becomes the best racer. But if you've revisi...
25 Aug 20241h 9min
Red, White & Royal Blue: Queer Joy, Queer Trash, and Geopolitics
Tired of living through major historical events? Do you feel like the times are never going to stop being unprecedented? Does every news alert fill you with existential dread and anxiety? Introducing...
21 Jul 202443min
The Barbie Movie: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Mojo Dojo Casa House
This time, we’re taking on a film basically everyone has an opinion on: Barbie (2023), dir. Greta Gerwig. We will dissect the gendered societal structure of Barbieland, praise the rise of himbos, disc...
23 Jun 20241h 17min
Paddington Bear: British Icon and/or Model Immigrant?
This episode is all about the bear, the myth, the legend: Paddington. Whether you know him as the British icon who has tea with the Queen, or if you know him as the quirky little bear with a big heart...
12 Mai 20241h 6min
